Greywalker

Monday, October 30 2006 @ 02:20 PM GMT+4

Greywalker , Kat Richardson.  Yet another entry in the urban fantasy/paranormal mystery genre, Richardson's debut is well-executed, but just a bit hollow.  Private Detective Harper Blaine becomes a "greywalker" after spending two minutes clinically dead due to head trauma, and her newfound ability to see into the spirit realm takes her into contact with all manner of ghosts and undead as her clientele becomes increasingly more strange.  The mystery aspect of the novel's a bit too split to work well with the length of the book - equal time is given to a missing person-turned vampire case, and a ghostly battery, and Harper herself at times seems as thinly drawn as the Grey she vanishes into from time to time.  While the vampires and ghosts keep the book moving, I'm used to more in the way of character development - what history does Harper have, and what kind of danger is she used to being in?  One quibble is the literal maniacally laughing villain - this has be done badly far, far too often to work in fiction any longer.  For the most part, Richardson offers an interesting spin on a heavily mined subgenre, and I like what little I see of Harper.   Provided she sticks to future cases with as much effort as her creatures it should be a fun series to watch.

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